The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon's controversial assisted suicide law yesterday, turning back a challenge from the Bush administration. The 6-3 decision followed a familiar pattern, with justices Anontin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissenting, alo ...
I am scheduled to appear tonight on CNN's "Larry King Live" tonight to discuss the movie Brokeback Mountain and the issue of homosexuality. The program starts at 9:00 est and will repeat at midnight. ...
The Times [London] is reporting that the Vatican is considering a proposal to rehabilitate Judas, the disciple who betrayed Christ. Here is the crucial section of the paper's report: The proposed "rehabilitation" of the man who was paid 30 pieces of ...
Historian Taylor Branch has now completed his massive and magisterial chronicle of the civil rights era with the much-awaited release of Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968. Canaan's Edge is the third volume of Branch's trilogy, and th ...
Historian Niall Ferguson warns that the situation in the Middle East is growing more and more dangerous -- especially with the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. Indeed, he sees the real possibility of nuclear catastrophe and a possible world wa ...
James Lovelock, the originator of the "Gaia" hypothesis, now argues that planet Earth is doomed and there is nothing we can do about it. Lovelock argued thirty years ago that the earth is regulated by a planetary-scale control system he named "Gaia." ...
The New York Times offers a rare and very solid report on the operations of a crisis pregnancy center and assistance ministry for women in today's edition. In "Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk," reporter John Leland takes readers int ...
Robert H. Bork offers his list of the five most important books on the U.S. Constitution in "We The People," published in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal. His list: 1. The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. ...
My commentary today is about the NBC drama, "The Book of Daniel." Here is a news story from MediaWeek that gets to the bottom line of what the network is discovering after the show's opening episode -- advertisers aren't buying it. From MediaWeek: ...
From The Telegraph [London]: Hybrid rabbit-human embryos could be created in a plan under discussion by scientists and the fertility watchdog as a result of the Korean stem cell scandal. The team had intended to use human eggs to clone embryos in ...